Webster's Dictionary, the Glossary

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1. 70 relations: Abridgement, American College Dictionary, Amherst, Massachusetts, Cambridge University Press, Carl August Friedrich Mahn, CD-ROM, Century Dictionary, Charles Annandale, Chauncey A. Goodrich, Chronology, Collaborative International Dictionary of English, Copyright, Democratic-Republican Party, DICT, Dictionary, DjVu, Dord, E-text, Ebook, Emily Dickinson, Encarta, Encarta Webster's Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., English-language spelling reform, Federalist Party, First Folio, Funk & Wagnalls, GCIDE, Generic trademark, George Merriam, Ghost word, Internet Archive, John Ogilvie (lexicographer), Joseph Emerson Worcester, Knights of the Round Table, Lexicography, Library of Congress, Merriam-Webster, Microsoft, National Endowment for the Humanities, New Haven, Connecticut, New Oxford American Dictionary, Noah Porter, Noah Webster, Online Etymology Dictionary, Optical character recognition, Oxford English Dictionary, PDF, Philip M. Parker, Philology, ... Expand index (20 more) »

Abridgement

An abridgement (or abridgment) is a condensing or reduction of a book or other creative work into a shorter form while maintaining the unity of the source.

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American College Dictionary

The American College Dictionary was the first Random House dictionary and was later expanded to create the Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Webster's Dictionary and American College Dictionary are English dictionaries.

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Amherst, Massachusetts

Amherst is a city in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Carl August Friedrich Mahn

Carl August Friedrich Mahn (September 9, 1802 – January 27, 1887) was a German philologist and language teacher and researcher.

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CD-ROM

A CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs.

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Century Dictionary

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia is one of the largest encyclopedic dictionaries of the English language. Webster's Dictionary and Century Dictionary are English dictionaries.

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Charles Annandale

Charles Annandale (1843–1915) was a Scottish editor, primarily of reference books.

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Chauncey A. Goodrich

Chauncey Allen Goodrich (October 23, 1790 – February 25, 1860) was an American clergyman, educator and lexicographer.

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Chronology

Chronology (from Latin chronologia, from Ancient Greek χρόνος, chrónos, "time"; and -λογία, -logia) is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (CIDE) was derived from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and has been supplemented with some of the definitions from WordNet.

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Copyright

A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

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Democratic-Republican Party

The Republican Party, retroactively called the Democratic-Republican Party (a modern term created by modern historians and political scientists), and also referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party among other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed liberalism, republicanism, individual liberty, equal rights, decentralization, free markets, free trade, agrarianism, and sympathy with the French Revolution.

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DICT

DICT is a dictionary network protocol created by the DICT Development Group in 1997, described by RFC 2229.

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Dictionary

A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.

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DjVu

DjVu (like French "déjà vu") is a computer file format designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those containing a combination of text, line drawings, indexed color images, and photographs.

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Dord

The word dord is a dictionary error in lexicography.

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E-text

e-text (from "electronic text"; sometimes written as etext) is a general term for any document that is read in digital form, and especially a document that is mainly text.

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Ebook

An ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet.

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Encarta

Microsoft Encarta is a discontinued digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009.

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Encarta Webster's Dictionary

The Encarta Webster's Dictionary of the English Language (2004) is the second edition of the Encarta World English Dictionary, published in 1999 (Anne Soukhanov, editor). Webster's Dictionary and Encarta Webster's Dictionary are English dictionaries.

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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is the company known for publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica, the world's oldest continuously published encyclopaedia.

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English-language spelling reform

For centuries, there have been movements to reform the spelling of the English language.

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Federalist Party

The Federalist Party was a conservative and nationalist American political party and the first political party in the United States.

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First Folio

Mr.

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Funk & Wagnalls

Funk & Wagnalls was an American publisher known for its reference works, including A Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1st ed. 1893–5), and the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia (25 volumes, 1st ed. 1912).

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GCIDE

GCIDE is the GNU version of Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from the 1913 edition of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary and WordNet.

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Generic trademark

A generic trademark, also known as a genericized trademark or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name that, because of its popularity or significance, has become the generic term for, or synonymous with, a general class of products or services, usually against the intentions of the trademark's owner.

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George Merriam

George Merriam (January 20, 1803 – June 22, 1880) was an American publisher.

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Ghost word

A ghost word is a word published in a dictionary or similarly authoritative reference work even though it had not previously had any meaning or been used intentionally.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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John Ogilvie (lexicographer)

John Ogilvie (17 April 1797 – 21 November 1867) was a Scottish lexicographer who edited the Imperial Dictionary of the English Language.

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Joseph Emerson Worcester

Joseph Emerson Worcester (August 24, 1784 – October 27, 1865) was an American lexicographer who was the chief competitor to Noah Webster of Webster's Dictionary in the mid-nineteenth-century.

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Knights of the Round Table

The Knights of the Round Table (Marchogion y Ford Gron, Marghekyon an Moos Krenn, Marc'hegien an Daol Grenn) are the legendary knights of the fellowship of King Arthur that first appeared in the Matter of Britain literature in the mid-12th century.

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Lexicography

Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by the, dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.

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New Oxford American Dictionary

The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is a single-volume dictionary of American English compiled by American editors at the Oxford University Press. Webster's Dictionary and New Oxford American Dictionary are English dictionaries.

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Noah Porter

Noah Thomas Porter III (December 14, 1811 – March 4, 1892)Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, Yale University, 1891-2, New Haven, pp.

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Noah Webster

Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author.

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Online Etymology Dictionary

The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper.

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Optical character recognition

Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text superimposed on an image (for example: from a television broadcast).

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. Webster's Dictionary and Oxford English Dictionary are English dictionaries.

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PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Philip M. Parker

Philip M. Parker (born June 20, 1960) is an American economist and academic, currently the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

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Philology

Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.

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Public domain

The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition. Webster's Dictionary and Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary are English dictionaries.

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Springfield, Massachusetts

Springfield is the most populous city in and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Subscription business model

The subscription business model is a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service.

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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is a dictionary of American English published by HarperCollins. Webster's Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language are English dictionaries.

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The Chicago Manual of Style

The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated as CMOS, TCM, or CMS, or sometimes as Chicago) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is an American newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and student affairs professionals, including staff members and administrators.

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The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language

The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete Encyclopedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, and Technological, edited by Rev. Webster's Dictionary and the Imperial Dictionary of the English Language are English dictionaries.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

The University of Pennsylvania Press, also known as Penn Press, is a university press affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Webster's Dictionary

Webster's Dictionary is any of the English language dictionaries edited in the early 19th century by Noah Webster (1758–1843), an American lexicographer, as well as numerous related or unrelated dictionaries that have adopted the Webster's name in his honor. Webster's Dictionary and Webster's Dictionary are English dictionaries.

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Webster's New World Dictionary

Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language is an American dictionary published first in 1951 and since 2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. Webster's Dictionary and Webster's New World Dictionary are English dictionaries.

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Wiktionary

Wiktionary (rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.

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William Allan Neilson

William Allan Neilson (28 March 1869 – 13 February 1946) was a Scottish-American educator, writer and lexicographer, graduated in the University of Edinburgh in 1891 and became a PhD in Harvard University in 1898.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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William Torrey Harris

William Torrey Harris (September 10, 1835 – November 5, 1909) was an American educator, philosopher, and lexicographer.

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Yale College

Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University.

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Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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References

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